Holidaymakers get back to HCMC, causing traffic overloading

Transport firms such as Phuong Trang, Thanh Buoi and Hoang Anh from Ninh Thuan province and Cuc Tung from Khanh Hoa have run out of tickets to HCMC. Lot of people have been forced to catch coaches along streets and accepted to be stuffed in aisles. Suoi Cat roundabout in Phan Thiet city of Binh Thuan province is a familiar spot of locals who want to catch buses to travel south. At noon on the fourth and fifth day of the new lunar year, they were found waiting there. Many coaches traveled across the spot but did not stop because there was no room to receive more. Looking inside the coaches, SGGP reporters saw no empty seats and passengers sat right on aisles. Entering a coach of Hoang Anh company, a SGGP reporter was announced ticket fare of VND250,000 a person without any bargain to have a seat in the aisle where up to 10 people were sitting on. The coach’s badge says it plies on the fix route from Mien Dong coach station to Phan Rang city, still the vehicle continuously picked up and dropped off passengers along streets. The final point for passengers to get off was not in the coach station but Cao Thang street in District 10. Deputy director general of Mien Dong coach station Nguyen Hoang Huy said that many coaches have not entered the station and picked up passengers along streets to avoid taxes. Once spotting such cases, the station will inform the management… [Read full story]